Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
13 125 zł
Pension Insurance
- 1 281 zł
Sickness Insurance
- 322 zł
Disability Insurance
- 197 zł
Health Insurance
- 1 019 zł
Total tax
- 2 819 zł
Net pay
* 10 306 zł
Marginal tax rate
21.5%
Average tax rate
21.5%
78.5%
Net pay
21.5%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
10 306 zł
Net pay
2 687 zł
Tax the employer pays
2 819 zł
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
5 506 zł
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 2 687 zł to pay you 13 125 zł. In other words, every time you spend 10 zł of your hard-earned money, 4.20 zł goes to the government.
Real tax rate
34.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 21.5% tax rate now rises to 34.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 13.3% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 13 125 zł a year living in Poland, you will be taxed 2 819 zł. That means that your net pay will be 10 306 zł per year, or 859 zł per month. Your average tax rate is 21.5% and your marginal tax rate is 21.5%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 zł in your salary will be taxed 21.47 zł, hence, your net pay will only increase by 78.53 zł.
Bonus Example
A 1 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 785 zł of net incomes. A 5 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 3 927 zł of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
PLN 11 988
8.7%
1
Canada
PLN 11 409
13.1%
2
NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the Polska tables of Poland, income tax. For simplification purposes some variables (such as marital status and others) have been assumed. This document does not represent legal authority and shall be used for approximation purposes only.